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Jeremy, I love your videos, but a lot of the time you review movies I would not see regardless of your review. But I’m still very interested, and get disappointed when there are omitted parts due to spoilers. So I would very much enjoy as many spoiler reviews as you could put out. Even the same length as the non-spoiler videos would be great. I want to know what the cool thing with the keypad was!

I’m so surprised by the critical acclaim, haven’t seen it yet and I’m sure it’s great, but the trailers were so fucking god awful, probably some of the worst trailers I’ve seen all year, so so so cringe, and what’s up with Liam’s fucking floppy arms hahaha. Jesus it looks so bad, pleasantly surprised that it’s getting good reviews tho.

If you believe Rey is a terrible character, then you can say “Rey is a bad character.” Instead, we get people saying “DISNEY IS TRYING TO FORCE POLITICS INTO THE AUDIENCE’S MOUTHS!!” If the character is shit, then the character is shit, simple as that. When we get a terrible male character, we go “that was a bad character.” I don’t understand why we can’t do the same for female characters.

The thing that always gets me about the social activists that say how awful and racist and sexist movies are…they share the exact same politics with everyone in Hollywood. Hollywood is literally on their side and pushing their agenda, and it’s still never enough. Makes me think that perhaps Hollywood should allow people with different politics to make some movies, and maybe they wouldn’t be as problematic as not everyone sees the world through intersectional lenses. Some people just treat people like people based on what they say and do, not how they look.

Love you Jahns, but you’re wrong here. When we’re talking about how awful it is for little boys and little girls to be separated into their own lanes, we can’t fall into the trap of thinking boys like things that are actually cool, girls like lame stuff. Casinos being robbed is cool in a traditionally masculine way, fashion is cool in a traditionally feminine way. Best way to break out of these boxes is exactly what’s happening right now. We need Widows as much as we need Ocean’s 8, so our ideas of coolness get broadened. And yes, I do know women who were really happy not just to see women lead a heist, but to see the stuff they care about, fashion, take centre stage.

And a male-led heist movie set in the world of high fashion? Sign me the fuck up. Get Tan from Queer Eye to cameo if not play a major role.

TL;DR: you can’t fight the compartmentalization of gender by just bringing women into the men’s lane.